Your creative brain seven steps to maximize imagination, productivity, and innovation in your life
Research-based techniques that show everyone how to expand creativity and increase productivity Harvard psychologist Shelley Carson?s provocative book, published in partnership with Harvard Health Publications, reveals why creativity isn't something only scientists, investors, artists, writers...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco :
Jossey-Bass
2010.
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| Colección: | Harvard Health Publications
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009849107506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Meet Your Creative Brain; 1: Wanted: Your Creative Brain; ""Isn't Creativity Mainly for Artists, Writers, and Musicians?""; ""What If I'm Just Not a Creative Person?""; 2: Your Mental Comfort Zone; The Connect Brainset; The Reason Brainset; The Envision Brainset; The Absorb Brainset; The Transform Brainset; The Evaluate Brainset; The Stream Brainset; Which Brainset Do You Prefer?; Cluster One Questions; Cluster Two Exercises; Exercise #1
- Exercise #2 Part 1Exercise #3; Exercise #4; Exercise #5; Exercise #6; Exercise #7; Exercise #8; Exercise #9; Exercise #10; Exercise #2 Part 2; 3: Tour Your Creative Brain; How the Brain Communicates with Itself; Geography of the Brain; The Right and Left Hemispheres; The Lobes of the Cerebral Cortex; The Executive Center; The ""Me"" Center; The Judgment Center; The Reward Center; The Fear Center; The Association Centers; 4: Brainsets and the Creative Process; The Deliberate and Spontaneous Pathways to Creativity; Deliberate and Spontaneous Networks in the Brain; The Creative Process
- PreparationIncubation; Illumination; Verification; Part 2: Training Your Creative Brain; 5: Opening the Mind: Accessing the Absorb Brainset; So Easy a Caveman Could Do It; Defining the Absorb Brainset; Attraction to Novelty; Delayed Judgment; Cognitive Disinhibition; Neuroscience of the Absorb Brainset; The Absorb Brainset and Alpha Activity; Cognitive Disinhibition and the Open Brainset; Attraction to Novelty and the Absorb Brainset; When to Access the Absorb Brainset; The Preparation Stage; The Incubation/Insight Stage; Cavemen, Take Heart; Exercises: The Absorb Brainset
- Absorb Exercise #1: Attraction to Novelty: Noticing New AspectsAbsorb Exercise #2: Delayed Judgment: The Absorb Brainset and Food; Absorb Exercise #3: Enhance Alpha and Theta Activity: Aerobic Activity Recovery; Absorb Exercise #4: Enhance Alpha and Theta Activity: Openness Meditation; Absorb Exercise #5: Disinhibition: The Absorb Brainset and REM Sleep; Absorb Exercise #6: Induce Mild Disinhibition: Dialogue with Your TOP; 6: Imagining the Possibilities: Accessing the Envision Brainset; From Memory to Imagination; Defining the Envision Brainset; Mental Imagery; Hypothetical Thinking
- Neuroscience of the Envision BrainsetSpontaneous Generation of Mental Imagery; Generating Versus Manipulating Mental Images; Exercises: The Envision Brainset; Envision Exercise #1: Visual Mental Imagery: Your Bedroom; Envision Exercise #2: Generating Multi-Modal Mental Imagery: Mental Holiday; Envision Exercise #3: Visual Mental Imagery: Muscle Memory; Envision Exercise #4: Mental Imagery: Floor Plan; Envision Exercise #5: Manipulating Mental Imagery: Your Car; Envision Exercise #6: Hypothetical Thinking: ""What If ?""; Envision Exercise #7: Mental Imagery: Modulation of Executive Control
- 7: Thinking Divergently: Accessing the Connect Brainset
